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DBMS > Altibase vs. HarperDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Qdrant vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. HarperDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Qdrant vs. RDF4J

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSVector DBMSRDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitealtibase.comwww.harperdb.iowww.postgres-xl.orggithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
rdf4j.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.harperdb.io/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationqdrant.tech/­documentationrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperAltibaseHarperDBQdrantSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release199920172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20212004
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20233.1, August 202110 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++Node.jsCRustJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesdynamic schemayesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoJSON data typesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like data manipulation statementsyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsCustom Functions infosince release 3.1user defined functionsyes
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterhorizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedCollection-level replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsACID infoMVCCACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardKey-based authenticationno

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